Gallo-Romance languages

Gallo-Romance
Geographic distribution:	France, Northern Italy, Channel Islands, parts of Belgium and Switzerland
Linguistic classification:	Indo-European Romance Western Gallo-Iberian Gallo-Romance
Subdivisions:	Franco-Provençal Occitano-Romance Oïl languages Gallo-Italic Rhaeto-Romance

The Gallo-Romance branch of Romance languages includes French and several other languages spoken in modern France and northern Italy and Spain. According to certain linguists, it also includes Occitan and Catalan; others group these two together as a separate Occitano-Romance branch, or place Catalan within the Ibero-Romance group. The Gallo-Romance languages, along with the Ibero-Romance and Rhaeto-Romance groups, form Western Romance.

Examples of Gallo-Romance languages

• Lombard
• Piedmontese
• Emilian-Romagnol
• Venetian
• Ligurian
• Franco-Provençal